Author: hrbrmstr
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Track Hurricane Danny (Interactively) with R + leaflet
Danny became the first hurricane of the 2015 Season, so it's a good time to revisit how one might be able to track them with…
cdcfluview - On The Way to "CRAN 7K"
I like to turn coincidence into convergence whenever possible. This weekend, a user of \cdcfluview\ had a question that caused me to notice a difference in behaviour between the package was interacting with CDC FluView API, so I updated…
Adding a CRAN Search Engine to Chrome
Riffing off of the previous post, here's a way to quickly search CRAN (the @RStudio flavor) from the Chrome search…
Speeding Up Your Quest(s) For "R Stuff"
I use Google quite a bit when conjuring up R projects, whether it be in a lazy pursuit of a PDF vignette or to find a package or function to fit a niche need. Inevitably, I'll do something like this (yeah, I'm still on a mapping kick) and…
Achieve Charting Zen With TauCharts
There was some chatter on the twitters this week about a relatively new D3-based charting library called TauCharts (also @taucharts). The API looked pretty clean and robust, so I started working on an htmlwidget for it and was quickly…
Two New R Packages - qrencoder & passwordrandom
Believe it or not, there are two [ 1 ] [ 2 ] questions on @StackOverflowR about how to make QR codes in R. I personally think QR codes are kinda hokey, but who am I to argue with pressing needs of the #rstats community? I found libqrencode…
Introducing the nominatim geocoding package
In the never-ending battle for truth, justice and publishing more R packages than Oliver, I whipped out an R package for the OpenStreetMap Nominatim API. It actually hits the MapQuest Nominatim Servers for most of the calls, but the…
Making Static/Interactive Voronoi Map Layers In ggplot/leaflet
Despite having shown various ways to overcome D3 cartographic envy , there are always more examples that can cause the green monster to rear it's ugly…
Roll Your Own Gist Comments Notifier in R
As I was putting together the coordproj ggplot2 extension I had posted a gist that I shared on Twitter. Said gist received a comment (several, in fact) and a bunch of us were painfully reminded of the fact that there is no built-in way to…
A Path Towards Easier Map Projection Machinations with ggplot2
The $DAYJOB doesn't afford much opportunity to work with cartographic datasets, but I really like maps and tinker with shapefiles and geo-data when I can, plus answer a ton of geo-questions on StackOverflow. R makes it easy—one might even…